Steam spring-bedstead



:1 T. YOUNG.

Bedstead.

Patented Dec. 29, 1857.

MkNRN UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHAS. T. YOUNG, OF NORTH OHELMSFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF,AND HENRY OROVTHER, OE LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

STEAM SPRING-BEDSTEAD.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 19,008, dated December 29-, 1857.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES T. YOUNG, of North Chelmsford, in the countyof M1ddlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a noveland useful Steam Spring-Bedstead; and I hereby declare that thefollowing specification, in connection with the accompanying drawingsand references thereon, constitute a lucid, clear, and exact descriptionof the construction and use of the same in referring to said drawings.

Figure 1, denotes a plan or top view. Fig. 2, a side elevation of thesame. Fig. 3, an end view or elevation of it. Fig. 4, a longitudinal andvertical section on line A, B, of Fig. 1.

The nature of my invention cons1sts in so constructing my bedstead thatsteam may be circulated through it, to warm the bed or room and in thearrangement whereby any desired elevation may be given the bed, and inthe arrangement whereby the elasticity of the rails of the bedstead ismade applicable to support, elastically the bedding thereon, all ashereafter set forth.

U0nstru0ti0n.To enable persons skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to construct and carry out the same I will describe it asfollows. I construct the posts of hollow metal tubing seen at B in allthe figures of the drawing. To the top of these posts I secure an elbowseen at D 1n all the figures. Two posts are connected together for thefoot, and two for the head of the bedstead by the cross tubes seen at Land N, Figs. 1 and 3 being screwed tightly into the elbows D. Below thetube L and above the bedding I fiX a. smaller tube as seen at E. Fig. 3on to which I fasten the material for the head and footboard which maybe wire netting seen at F or any other desired substance. The tubes Eand L are so connected to the tube posts B that steam may pass into orthrough all of them. I now construct four couplings seen at C with aperpendicular hole through each sufiicient to be passed up on to, and besecured in any desired position on the posts B by means of the setscrews 0 Figs. l,2,3,and 4; these couplings are connected togethercrosswise of the bed by the tube N Fig. 4 which is screwed into themsteam tight, and which constitute the head and foot or cross rails tothe bedstead; the long rails can be seen at A and are likewise hollowmetal tubes, and are fitted tight to holes formed in the couphng C. Tworods I running horizontally with the bedstead and through the crossrails seen at N to hold the bedstead firmly together by the nuts andheads K and J Fig. 1; the rods I support the slats G which are kept inposition by the cords H.

A stop cock seen at M may be properly fitted to one of the posts of thebedstead seen at B, or to any other part of the tubing to let the hotsteam circulate through to both warm the room and render the occupant ofthe bed comfortable; the steam passes into one of the posts B as seen atP, at one post thence through all the tubing composing the bedstead andthence out of another of the posts B seen at Q.

By loosening the set screws 0 the rails A and N and bedding upon themmay be elevated or lowered as desired and secured firmly in suchadjusted position as desired by turning up the set screws 0 which hadbeen previously loosened; this is an entirely novel, and a very valuablearrangement for giving an adjustable elevation to the bed as desired, ina moments time.

Bedsteads constructed of tubing as invented by me are much lighter thanthe old wooden bedstead, as Will be readily apparent, and in additionthe bedstead is permanently elastic to a degree impossible to attain inany other manner or where wood is used for construction, so that asuflicient elasticity exists in my bedstead.

It will be seen that the elasticity is brought about as follows: As thepersons place themselves upon the bed the downward pressure causes therails to vibrate sidewise thus imparting an elasticity or yielding tothe bedding and consequently an easy sustaining surface to the personsreposing upon them; thus the spring or elasticity for the bed iseffected by the rails themselves, so that the sprin is the rails and ofcourse part of the bedstead.

I do not claim constructing bedstead of metallic tubing, as such is oldand Well post, arranged as, and for the purposes fully known. set forth.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isCHARLES YOUNG 5 The rods I, connected to the end rails N, Witnesses:

when these rails and the side rails A, are E. W. SCOTT,

connected by a common coupling to the bed HENRY CROWTHER.

